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Compositing shots together

Compositing shots together - After Effects Tutorial

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Compositing shots together

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- [Narrator] The next step for this pac show is to create a convincing composition from the layers we've created so far. So in this movie, I'll show you two third-party plug-ins that can help you to achieve realistic results. Those plug-ins are part of the Key Correct family available from Red Giant. They don't come cheap but, for me, they are priceless. So let me show you why I think that. I'm going to double-click on this shot that I'm compositing, and then I'm going to select this guy: Front Layer Mask. So this is the result of the previous movie. And, as you can see, I've already applied two effects from the Key Correct family: the Edge Blur, and the Light Warp. I'm going to dismiss them and show you how those two shots are being combined together by default. So obviously we can see that we have a very clear border, clearly defined matte that was created in the previous step, thanks to the help of Mocha AE. So this doesn't fly, it doesn't convince me at all that those two shots…

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